Every drop counts

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Nearly 97% of all the earth’s water is salty or undrinkable. Another 2% is locked in ice caps and glaciers. That leaves 1% for all our needs...
With only 1% of the earth’s water reserved for human use, don’t you think we should treat our water with a little more respect?

Is Tripura heading for central intervention?

Tapas Dey

In any federal structure of governance Central intervention in the affairs of a State Government happens only in extreme cases on the basis of specific constitutional mandates.The framers of our constitution had visualized certain scenarios where Central intervention in the affairs of a state might be called for in the interest of national integration and security.

Nothing illustrates the point better than the provision made in Article 356 which mandates Central intervention or inter alia imposition of Central rule in the event of ‘constitutional breakdown’ or a condition in which the governance of a state can not be carried out in accordance with the provisions of Indian Constitution. Besides, Article 352 which enables the Centre to dismiss a State Government and impose Central rule in the event of emergencies like external aggression or internal disturbance in a state or in the whole of India.